Responsive tectonics: Adaptive narratives in design studios

Abstract

This chapter aims to relentlessly zoom in and out to integrate the relationship between the environment and the human across the frameworks of the organizational, morphological, and .social .spatial encounters for producing responsive micro-tectonics in design studios. These alternative tectonic prototypes set out to explore the techniques (models and methods) with which to re-think and re-design the brief of space making. It is substantial to introduce architecture to first year students not as a static phenomenon but as a discipline of responsive space making. The fact that students who experience such a first class will not approach the space as a purely physical and static phenomenon carries serious potential. This process tries to occupy a context to have the moments where the codes can flip, so people have an escape hatch, a choice about material, scale, pattern, and other unexpected dialogues. © 2022 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.